Chapter 976： Watching movies

For movie company operators, if they can't keep a good attitude, try their best to make the worst plan for each movie project. Maybe a few movies will come down, they may be crazy. After all, the investment of tens of millions or even hundreds of millions of dollars, in the blink of an eye, has nothing to lose. This kind of big ups and downs is too stimulating.

Regardless of whether or not they are optimistic about the "Austin Powers", as the Easter schedule approaches, the last wave of marketing campaigns of the three companies is still in full swing.

The TV trailers of the film are playing more and more intensively, and the news about the Easter movie packages is also more endless. Even some non-firefly system Easter season films begin to sneak a slap in the 'Easter Movie Package'. Self-promotion.

However, whether it is "Austin Powers 2", "Wedding Singer" or "Different", it is obviously not a movie that may be acclaimed by film critics. Therefore, before the film was officially released, the three companies did not hold three films. Any media preview.

The film could not be seen in advance, and the media naturally began to guess based on subjective impressions.

"Wedding Singer" and "Different" are all new scripts. Without the pre-production, the media has to focus on the "Ace of the Evil Mission 2" which has already released a pre-production and the Easter schedule is also in the lead.

Although the first part of "Austin Powers" received more than 60 million US dollars at the box office, only the North American box office gave Fox a nearly double the cost compared with the cost, but the film can only use one word in the media. Bad words to describe.

Coupled with the common box office rules of the same type of "Fighting Condor" and "Anti-Fighting Intelligence Star" and other spoof series, most media are not optimistic about the box office prospects of "Austin Powers 2", some media directly said that Fox I have been reluctant to hold a screening, because the film is too bad.

And by analogy, the quality of the other two films is not satisfactory. I have to say that this view has been recognized by a large part of the media.

In comparison, the only one in the Easter season, the "City of Angels", which was a big production film, held a lively media screening in Los Angeles one week after the Oscars. The subsequent media evaluations were obvious. There are some public relations factors of Warner, but the overall word of mouth is not bad. The media that participated in the screening generally gave a score of more than seven points, which is not good, but it also reached a standard worth seeing. Together with the box office appeal of Nicholas Cage and Meg Ryan, Warner Bros. Full of confidence.

So until April 1st, due to the spoof attribute of "Austin Powers 2", Foxter chose to hold a premiere show that was not too big but interesting in a theater in Los Angeles on April Fool's Day. The invited guests are basically the media in the three company systems and the lucky audience at the core.

The premiere of "The City of Angels" was arranged on the second day, and the venue also selected the Chinese Grand Theatre, where Hollywood movies often hosted the premiere.

On April 3rd, the Easter schedule was officially opened. "Austin Powers 2" opened at the same time on 3,091 screens in North America. Perhaps due to careful consideration, Warner Bros. arranged only 2,700 for the "City of Angels". Draw a screen.

It is not difficult to understand that in the film era, for a large-scale film, the cost of copying alone is a very expensive expense.

The City of Angels lasted nearly two hours, with an average cost of around $1,500 per copy, 2,700 copies, and the spending was over $4 million, enough to make a small-cost movie. The duration of the "Austin Powers 2" is about 90 minutes. Although the cost of making a single copy is cheaper, it costs more than 3,000 copies and the total cost is more than $3 million.

In Firefly Studios, Eric built the 'Freedom City' ahead of schedule, and Iron Man's Tony Stark mansion was naturally redesigned.

The Iron Man Mansion in the setting is located on the top of Beverly. Compared with the City of Liberty, the new mansion design is full of angular mechanical atmosphere, more in line with Tony Stark's talented engineer.

During the filming process, Larry Ellison saw the design of this new mansion, and was excited to turn it into reality. He used it to compete with Eric in the sharp corner of Malibu. He has been watching the sharp corner manor for too long.

However, after calculating the construction cost, Larry Ellison had to give up.

Because the new Iron Man Mansion, if you want to restore it at the Beverly Hills, you need at least $100 million.

This money does not seem to be much compared to Larry Ellison’s tens of billions of net worth, but in fact, more than 90% of Larry Ellison’s personal assets are stocks, in order to maintain the Oracle The control, Larry Ellison certainly can not easily sell any stock, and the rest of his remaining assets are mostly real estate and real estate, Larry Ellison is actually free to control Funds are only one or two million.

Once Larry Ellison, who bought the yacht island, it was also a few years later that Oracle determined the dominance of the database software industry, and the company also generated a large amount of dividend income. Now that Oracle is in the midst of competing with several major competitors for market position, even if Oracle is profitable, it is all used in the company's development, and it is impossible to give shareholders any dividends.

Therefore, although not speaking on the mouth, but Larry Ellison, who likes luxury life in nature, is still envious of Eric during the filming. After completing the play of Hapy Hogan, he still only takes it himself. The reason why the one-dollar pay was too bad, borrowed a vh-60 helicopter from Eric here, and flew back to San Francisco all the way, until now.

Although the mansion in the conception is located on the top of Beverly, the interior layout is still built in the studio of the studio.

Today is the last day of the week's work. The only actors on the scene are Brigitte Fonda and Natasha Huntsquech. This is also the original "Iron Man" in the small pepper and "Vanity Fair" reporter Kristen's sword That scene.

After another shot, Jos Weiden shouted a 'good' and said, "Good, today's work is here, and this is the last game of Miss Huntsridge. Drama, we thank her for the time spent on this film, thank you."

As a result, Jos Weiden took the lead and all the staff around him put down their work and clashed. Although at the beginning everyone thought that Natasha Hensquech was the result of Eric, but during this time, Natasha Huntsque's outstanding performance is obvious to all.

Natasha Hensquech was also somewhat lost in excitement. She stood in court and politely greeted everyone: "Thank you, thank you, I am very happy to work with all of you."

Everyone was polite, Natasha first walked into the locker room under the leadership of the staff. She just wore a shirt, the hem completely covered the bottom pants, and the two long legs did not know to give the males on the scene. How much welfare.

Natasha left, and the others started to get busy again.

The internal scene of the Tony Stark mansion, with the end of the show, is completely over. Next, the crew will start a long and difficult location shooting.

Jos Weiden was relieved at this time, instructing the deputy director next to him to supervise several workers who came specifically to pick up the surrounding furniture and then send them back to the sharp corner manor.

Although Jos Verden really can't see why a simple coffee table can cost $60,000, before the use, the crew bought insurance for these furniture, and the insurance company recognized it after sending the assessment. The value of these furniture.

Busy, Eric and Jeff Bridges also walked in from the outside, their two plays today before Brigitte Fonda and Natasha Huntsitch, after the last scene, Both of them rushed to remove the makeup, and at this time they had changed to the usual clothes.

Talk to Jos Weeden for a while next week's shooting schedule, Brigitte Fonda and Natasha Huntsquech laughed and walked over and greeted a few people.

After talking about business, Jeff Bridges left, Jos Verden and other things, and walked away, the two women stayed, Brigitte Fonda finally found the opportunity, asked: "Ire K, are you free tomorrow?"

Eric looked at Brigitte Fonda, a very formal look, and nodded, "What's the matter?"

"Tomorrow's evening, Coppola's family wants to hold a party, Sophia, do you remember her? Sophia just finished her first director's work, she said that you encouraged her to try other work. So, if If you have time tomorrow, she hopes that you can go and see her work."

Eric smiled and said: "Tomorrow, is it going to the party, or watching a movie?"

Realizing that he didn't know how to make it clear, Brigitte Fonda said: "If you have time, go to the cinema tomorrow afternoon, and stay at the Coppola House for the party at night."

"Tomorrow, I must still watch the samples taken during this time with Jos," Eric shook his head regretfully. He said, "Let's do it, I can see if I can pass at night."

"Well, that's it," Brigitte Fonda only helped to convey the invitation. Naturally, it wouldn't be too eager to show up. He embraced Eric and went to Natasha Huntsque. When you say hello, leave and leave.

Eric looked around and said to Natasha Huntsque: "Let's go out too."

Natasha Hensquechi nodded and left the studio with Eric.

Just after five o'clock in the afternoon, the daytime in Los Angeles began to grow slowly. The two walked on the ramp of the park filled with the orange sun, and soon came to the administrative district with fewer people.

"The copyright of "The Legend of the Night" has been bought, but it takes a few months for the script to be created. If it is started, it is estimated that it will wait until September," Eric and Natasha said casually, suddenly thinking of something, "In this case, you may have to miss this year's Vimy show."

"It doesn't matter," Natasha shook her head and said: "Actually, I have been thinking about this time. Can you concentrate on the development of actors? Eric, can you think?"

In the past two years, the Vimi Army has accelerated the pace of renewal. Natasha Hensquech is twenty-four years old. It is very young compared to Cindy. But she also knows that she is not a supermodel that Wei Mi focuses on. It is impossible to stay in Wei Mi for a long time. on the stage.

What's more, models, whether they are professional or personal, are far from being comparable to movie stars.

Eric nodded and said: "Of course, next year, "Iron Man" will be released, you will be half-footed into Hollywood. As long as "The Legend of the Night" is successful, you will almost be in the second line, whether Hollywood actress can be promoted. The first line, in fact, is very much in need of luck. But as long as you can sit on the second-line status, you will not miss the film in the future. Oh, speaking, Hollywood's demand for vases is still very strong, not to mention your beautiful vase."

Natasha smiled and she was self-awareing that Eric had no objection to her vase. Although Hollywood also has a very beautiful first-line actress, like Nicole Kidman, but the other party's acting skills can really take her a few streets.

As long as she can stand firm in Hollywood, Natasha is already very satisfied.

"Eric, actually, um, I hope, I can have the opportunity to work with you."

Eric pointed to the studio area behind him and said: "Are we not working together recently?"

"I mean, participate in, um, your movie," Natasha said with a deep sigh of relief, and she played a retreat, saying: "Is it too whimsical?"

"Of course not," Eric shook his head and smiled. "If there is a chance in the future, I will definitely invite you. This is not a perfunctory. The key is to really meet the right role. And, strictly speaking, we will come. The expectations of cooperation are still very big. Everyone knows that I have been filming commercial films. The film’s requirements for acting are not so demanding.”

Even though I know that Eric even said that the opportunity for cooperation between the two is extremely embarrassing, Natasha is very happy, saying: "Then I am waiting. Also, Eric, what arrangements do you have for tonight? ”

"Look at the movie, I have already packed a luxury auditorium," Eric nodded, then looked at Natasha: "So, Miss Henscott, can I have the honor to invite you?"

Natasha simply did not ask what the meaning of the film was. She nodded directly: "Of course."